ABSTRACT
Subsequent police investigations included interviews with Esslemont who gave three statements over eight days, statements that contained inconsistencies. Moreover, forensic tests revealed, according to the police case, blood on all his clothes and on his golf club. He was tried in May 1993 and the inconsistencies in his statements were declared to be not lapses of memory but lies; he was found guilty and his appeal was rejected. Incidentally, his parents’ home was firebombed.
